Restore MKV Format Support
Removing MKV Format support has a negative impact on the workflow of people that work with broadcasting software like OBS. Restore MKV support. Having native support for MKVs, even if they don't edit well without generating proxies, saves me a ton of time that I'd otherwise have to spend remuxing/transcoding files.
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Ronnie Diaz
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My guess is the trend towards increased adoption of adobe premier in professional editing (movie production etc) means a tradeoff in decreased support for features which are geared more towards hobbyists.
I am a bit surprised since the market for small scale video creators is at least large enough to produce millions in revenue for Google..
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Kevin Fredrick
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Still waiting for MKV to be supported. It just doesn't make sense to remove support for it. Did they ever give us a reason WHY it was removed? OBS recommends that we record on mkv -_-
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John Raines
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A lot of tools create Matroska files. And it is a standard in many professional archives around the world. Those are good enough reasons to support the container format. Some flunky at Adobe didn't know these facts and thought, "Let's remove this weird boutique format." Wrong-o!
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Sergiu Mihalache
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Have you tried avidemux?
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Ryan Creighton
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Further to my comment below, and after a few weeks of working with remuxed mkv files.. you can remux in OBS and VLC, and i've tried both. The file will import into Premiere Pro, but it doesn't behave well. You can't scrub the timeline gracefully, and if you try to position other graphics on the screen in higher layers, as soon as you touch the x/y settings in the Effect Controls panel, the graphic instantly shoots off the screen and disappears. i now have to keep punching in values in the x/y fields to position my supers. :\
Not sure where critical mass is for Adobe to respond to a feature request, but looks like 372 votes ain't it.
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Sergiu Mihalache
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Feature removed for no reason at all, typical Adobe that seem to want to displease their paying users.
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Jake Sherlock
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Agreed
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James Alton
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I still use MKV on the daily. It's a free and open source container too. Why can it not be supported? It's not even a codec, just a container.
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Elijah Ciali
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Ryan Creighton, ah, Classic Adobe, where you need free software to fix the paid software.
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Eli Juicy Jones
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Insane. My subscription lapsed for a period between jobs. Now that I'm back, they've removed MKV support and years of source material is now useless. What the eff?
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Ryan Creighton
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i'm not going to sift through 12 pages of comments to see if someone else said this, but i have this same problem. And until the team supports mkv format again (which they should!) here's a very fast workaround using the free VLC software:
1. Media>Convert/Save
2. + Add (add the mkv file)
3. Convert/Save
4. Click the wrench
5. On the Video codec tab, select "Video" and "Keep original video track"
6. On the Audio codec tab, select "Audio" and "Keep original audio track"
7. Save
8. Browse
9. Choose a destination and give it a .mp4 filename
10. StartQuick and painless. Converts it to an mp4. But we shouldn't have to go through this. If free software can do it, this expensive software handle mkv files with no conversion.
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Ralph Mückstein
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i use remuxen in obs to transfer mkv to mp4. but adobe makes a 500mb file to a 1,4GB file with match source. profile youtube is over 4GB...
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Joshua Marner
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I was using OBS to record, and chose MKV because it doesn't require finalization of the file after recording. Why would you REMOVE support for something like this in professional software?
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Antoine Autokroma
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You could stay with the old version supporting MKV and downgrade your project manually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJO4PlHASIs
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James Delhauer
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This decision really hurt our company and caused a lot of our editors to switch to Resolve or Avid Workflows. This was a bad move, regardless of how much you saved on licensing. Other comments echo my struggles with broken project files, lost man hours, increased storage costs (from having to remux years of MKVs into MP4s while preserving the originals). You really betrayed us, Adobe. And your biggest threat right now is free. $600 a year is starting to feel like the tip of the iceberg when you break our workflows like this.
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scott sumpter
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When free options are more capable in the ways that people want, you're going to find a problem.
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mark mcmillan
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Cannot believe you broke every project I have worked on for the last 6 months. Inexcusable. Every camera clip I have is in MKV, every project is now unusable until I fiddle around with a bunch of manual steps that may or may not get the project back to exactly as it was.
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Angelo Wisidagama
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you should at least give a heads up before doing somethings like this , we have existing projects using mkv file format .Regardless if its low or high format its up-to us , a good editing software should be user friendly removing some of the features is not totally acceptable Instead of upgrading your features dont downgrade and make us disappointed. we were so happy about the features that you are introducing on each update but this is an total disappointment. we have a corporate deal and this is going to effect us big time. kindly look into this matter, or else we would have to consider looking for other alternatives. cause we will never know what will be you next move. which things you will remove. Thanks
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Antoine Autokroma
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Does anyone has a sample file for me please ?
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Ryan Buck
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Bring back MKV files please! I may have to go use other software since you stopped.